> mechanical power was often distributed around an entire factory by pulleys
That was done with steam power earlier, so the pulley system may have already been there when they were deciding whether to replace it with one big motor or fit motors to every individual machine.
> I was the clear winner, because I too 'thought outside the box'. > Did I get a commendation for my cleverness? Did I get a write-up in USA Today? > No. I got an F, despite there being no rules whatsoever prohibiting parachutes
Reminds me of a similar event, where we had to transport a lump of metal as far as possible using a rubber band powered vehicle. We specifically asked "does the whole vehicle have to go the whole way, or can we have a smaller 'delivery' section". "The whole vehicle has to cross the start line, but you can leave bits behind", we were told. Our ramp crawled across the start line, pulled the pin at the top of the ramp as the string wound round the axle, and our roller hit the far wall of the hall, way further than anyone else. We got zero marks for originality, because that "wasn't what the judges expected".
Nitpicking, decent encryption produces output which is hard to distinguish from truly random output without the key, but it's pseudo-random (like many computer generated "random" numbers), not truly random (like diode noise, or radioactive decay).
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> zombie (actually a player in makeup) shamble towards you
I used to LaRP years ago. One of the best moments was the look on a players face as he crawled out of a tunnel to see three zombies, just before one (me) hit his candle, the only light source. (He didn't know we were exceptionally slow low hit zombies, and that we only animated one at a time as more players came through, so he only actually had me to fight in the dark, and he had no real problem.)
Reading the article, that's actually exactly it, but "global, including local to you", not "Canadian". Reading the article's headline and comparing it with the article, you have to admire the high standards of journalism on Slashdot in comparison....
http://www.gizmag.co.uk/go/4538/ describes a US Army proposal for something similar. "the Walrus aircraft will be a heavier-than-air vehicle and will generate lift through a combination of aerodynamics, thrust vectoring and gas buoyancy generation and management" but "does not require an airstrip and can land on water or on open ground".
> > Reality is that in most cases, a vote for an independent candidate is a wasted vote. > Oh cut it out. This line of thought is why the US is stuck electing Republicrats every election. The only wasted vote is one that isn't cast.
Nope. A vote cast on a rigged machine with no audit trail is equally wasted.
Yes. Except you misspelt "so you can look at installing a better OS now, instead of when you finally get sick of Windows in spite of the time you have invested in learning it".
Saving a whole £20 or so compared with buying an extension tube set that will be rigid, lightproof, and non-shiny inside without all that fuss with Dremel and glue gun, and won't be full of salty crumbs.
> Don't make your idea until you can find ways to capitalize on it.
Patents are supposed to encourage development by providing a way for you to capitalize on something useful by selling a patent rather than keep it as a trade secret. If you aren't in a position to develop your idea and someone else is, it's better that you get some money and the world gets a new product than you take the idea to your grave.
How they actually work these days is another matter.
And if they do have to change something, it's not like having two different things with exactly the same version string could cause confusion, is it?</sarcasm>
Pah, that's nothing. I've seen subwoofer with kilowatts of power that you didn't fit in a vehicle, you mounted a whole vehicle (a small aircraft) on the speaker, which was a concrete floor. Ok, technically it wasn't a subwoofer, it was an airframe vibration testing rig, but the principle was the same, apart from you not wanting to be in the same building when it was turned on. (The amplifier looked like a row of filing cabinets full of water cooled power transisters).
> Also, you yourself might have codependent tendencies. Move out of the house for a year to see if you do.
Giving me a chance to test how well my young children manage without a father while I'm about it? I can just imagine trying to explain to the divorce lawyer "there was this guy on Slashdot who said it was a good idea".
> First, if you have even the slightest desire to marry some day, NEVER live with a girlfriend. Ever.
I lived with the woman who is now my wife before we married and don't think it was a mistake. My parents lived together before they were married and don't think it was a mistake. One of my grandmothers didn't live with her husband before they were married and wished she had (the other grandmother didn't either, but she didn't advise me either way).
> You need to test your girlfriend's ability to make it on her own.
And if she's making it on her own fine before you start dating? How does that rule out her moving in before you actually get married?
I've only tried the demo, but it had the worst AI I've ever seen. Some monsters will just stand there and take range damage until they fall over (the Frost Giant when you get through the first tunnel for example - he sees you (he talks to you) but if you don't close with him, he just stands there in his camp while you shoot and Fireball him). Others will come after you when attacked, but as soon as you get over a line, they go back to where they were, and wait for you to shoot them in the back again. The aliens in Space Invaders had better tactics.
> Where is EA's old "Deluxe Paint III" (Amiga version) when you need it? In a cardboard box in the back of a cupboard with other stuff on top of it, like my Amiga, I think. I wonder if the floppies are still readable.
When I first put XP on my home machine, I set it up with an admin account and normal users. After the third game my children wanted to put on it not only wouldn't install without admin rights, it wouldn't run either, I gave up and made everyone an admin.
Not really, as far as I know (I did say it was a slightly less accurate answer). It can spawn child processes though, so you can edit something while M-x compile output is filling another window, and http://www.mit.edu/~raeburn/guilemacs/ says Guile supports multiple threads.
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> mechanical power was often distributed around an entire factory by pulleys
That was done with steam power earlier, so the pulley system may have already been there when they were deciding whether to replace it with one big motor or fit motors to every individual machine.
There are exercise bike like game controllers, and there are also computer add-ons for trainers for real bikes.7
http://www.gamebike.com/
http://www.gameindustry.com/review/item.asp?id=30
http://www.peaktrainingsystem.com/
http://www.cbike.com/Tacx_imagic.htm
> I was the clear winner, because I too 'thought outside the box'.
> Did I get a commendation for my cleverness? Did I get a write-up in USA Today?
> No. I got an F, despite there being no rules whatsoever prohibiting parachutes
Reminds me of a similar event, where we had to transport a lump of metal as far as possible using a rubber band powered vehicle. We specifically asked "does the whole vehicle have to go the whole way, or can we have a smaller 'delivery' section". "The whole vehicle has to cross the start line, but you can leave bits behind", we were told.
Our ramp crawled across the start line, pulled the pin at the top of the ramp as the string wound round the axle, and our roller hit the far wall of the hall, way further than anyone else.
We got zero marks for originality , because that "wasn't what the judges expected".
Nitpicking, decent encryption produces output which is hard to distinguish from truly random output without the key, but it's pseudo-random (like many computer generated "random" numbers), not truly random (like diode noise, or radioactive decay).
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~gh275/ is worth a look too.
Describes attacks on contactless smartcards, a subset of RFID devices.
> You see, there are tons of news about RFID being broken, but when was the last time you saw that about a smart card?
m l?tw=wn_story_page_next1m etric_passport_crack/a ssport-cracked-us-next/
Using your terminology where these things everyone else is calling RFIDs but you want to call contactless smart cards?
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,69453-1.ht
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/30/dutch_bio
http://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/000434.html
http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/03/dutch-rfid-e-p
> Biometric passports and most other applications that need secure tokens utilize smart cards.
d _passport_s_1.htmlf id_evasions/
Except for the ones which really are planed to use RFIDs.
Here's some homework for you:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/08/rfi
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/30/burnham_r
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.98.html#subj7.1
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/23.87.html#subj5.1
http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200601/df2006 0116.jpg
> zombie (actually a player in makeup) shamble towards you
I used to LaRP years ago. One of the best moments was the look on a players face as he crawled out of a tunnel to see three zombies, just before one (me) hit his candle, the only light source.
(He didn't know we were exceptionally slow low hit zombies, and that we only animated one at a time as more players came through, so he only actually had me to fight in the dark, and he had no real problem.)
Reading the article, that's actually exactly it, but "global, including local to you", not "Canadian". Reading the article's headline and comparing it with the article, you have to admire the high standards of journalism on Slashdot in comparison....
http://www.gizmag.co.uk/go/4538/ describes a US Army proposal for something similar.
"the Walrus aircraft will be a heavier-than-air vehicle and will generate lift through a combination of aerodynamics, thrust vectoring and gas buoyancy generation and management" but "does not require an airstrip and can land on water or on open ground".
> > Reality is that in most cases, a vote for an independent candidate is a wasted vote.
> Oh cut it out. This line of thought is why the US is stuck electing Republicrats every election. The only wasted vote is one that isn't cast.
Nope. A vote cast on a rigged machine with no audit trail is equally wasted.
Yes. Except you misspelt "so you can look at installing a better OS now, instead of when you finally get sick of Windows in spite of the time you have invested in learning it".
Saving a whole £20 or so compared with buying an extension tube set that will be rigid, lightproof, and non-shiny inside without all that fuss with Dremel and glue gun, and won't be full of salty crumbs.
> Don't make your idea until you can find ways to capitalize on it.
Patents are supposed to encourage development by providing a way for you to capitalize on something useful by selling a patent rather than keep it as a trade secret. If you aren't in a position to develop your idea and someone else is, it's better that you get some money and the world gets a new product than you take the idea to your grave.
How they actually work these days is another matter.
And if they do have to change something, it's not like having two different things with exactly the same version string could cause confusion, is it?</sarcasm>
Pah, that's nothing. I've seen subwoofer with kilowatts of power that you didn't fit in a vehicle, you mounted a whole vehicle (a small aircraft) on the speaker, which was a concrete floor.
Ok, technically it wasn't a subwoofer, it was an airframe vibration testing rig, but the principle was the same, apart from you not wanting to be in the same building when it was turned on.
(The amplifier looked like a row of filing cabinets full of water cooled power transisters).
> Also, you yourself might have codependent tendencies. Move out of the house for a year to see if you do.
Giving me a chance to test how well my young children manage without a father while I'm about it? I can just imagine trying to explain to the divorce lawyer "there was this guy on Slashdot who said it was a good idea".
> First, if you have even the slightest desire to marry some day, NEVER live with a girlfriend. Ever.
I lived with the woman who is now my wife before we married and don't think it was a mistake. My parents lived together before they were married and don't think it was a mistake. One of my grandmothers didn't live with her husband before they were married and wished she had (the other grandmother didn't either, but she didn't advise me either way).
> You need to test your girlfriend's ability to make it on her own.
And if she's making it on her own fine before you start dating? How does that rule out her moving in before you actually get married?
Hard G as in "graphics" makes more sense to me, but I've often heard soft G. I'm in the UK.
If you follow the link to Simon Tatham's coroutines, there's a link to Duff confirming that he was referring to the same thing.o mments
http://brainwagon.org/archives/2005/03/05/1060/#c
I've only tried the demo, but it had the worst AI I've ever seen. Some monsters will just stand there and take range damage until they fall over (the Frost Giant when you get through the first tunnel for example - he sees you (he talks to you) but if you don't close with him, he just stands there in his camp while you shoot and Fireball him). Others will come after you when attacked, but as soon as you get over a line, they go back to where they were, and wait for you to shoot them in the back again. The aliens in Space Invaders had better tactics.
> Where is EA's old "Deluxe Paint III" (Amiga version) when you need it?
In a cardboard box in the back of a cupboard with other stuff on top of it, like my Amiga, I think. I wonder if the floppies are still readable.
When I first put XP on my home machine, I set it up with an admin account and normal users. After the third game my children wanted to put on it not only wouldn't install without admin rights, it wouldn't run either, I gave up and made everyone an admin.
Not really, as far as I know (I did say it was a slightly less accurate answer).
It can spawn child processes though, so you can edit something while M-x compile output is filling another window, and http://www.mit.edu/~raeburn/guilemacs/ says Guile supports multiple threads.